Is there some way to have age rating or parental controls in the basic version of Streamio so that the kids don’t end up getting SpongeBob intermingled with House of the Dragon?

I’ve tried Nuvio also, and while that gives a pin / user accounts, it doesn’t stop kids from altering settings etc.

Ideally, I’d want a system like Jellyfin has. Is that possible?

PS: on Nuvio, I had the idea of removing all plugins bar this one for the kids account

https://kids.gstream.stream/manifest.json

so that it’s at least obfuscated, but that plug in seems broken.

  • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I’m assuming that creating another account on the device itself (Chromecast, firestick, etc.) with another stremio account specifically for the kid is a bit more work than you’d like?

    • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Huh.

      The…idea just didn’t occur to me.

      Well, shit. Now I feel dumb(er).

      Though in fairness…can -

      1. the same debrid account be linked with two different stremio accounts?

      2. can the default Stremio discovery service be replaced with a more kid friendly one? I know that they can just search for whatever, but out of sight out of mind.

      3. Does having two separate Chromecast accounts / Android TV accounts give two different sets of installed apps?

      I like your idea; if it works it’s an elegant solution, esp if the main account can be pin locked.

      I’ll check it out tonight and report back.

  • paf@jlai.luEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Since you talked about jellyfin, you may try project called Remux, it is a jellyfin server which can also take stremio addon. Have not tried it myself but thought it was worth mentionning

    https://github.com/lostb1t/remux

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    While the Stremio app doesn’t have a settings lock feature, if you’re using Android, per this Reddit thread you can at least disable access to community add-ons by switching the device type in the Stremio settings to FireOS.

    Per this page on the Stremio GitHub, apparently the default Stremio content search plugin, Cinemeta, is configurable from the web client to restrict what appears in searches based on age ratings. As the other comment pointed out, they seem to restrict the option to paid users, so as an alternative per this documentation, AIOMetadata is a third-party alternative to Cinemeta with its own parental control feature. The associated AIOStreams plugin apparently also incorporates parental control functionality.

  • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I don’t think there are any parental controls, as last I remember seeing a conversation about it, one of the devs spoke about it being incredibly difficult to implement. But there may be some addons that can help a little like

    Stremio Family Shield

  • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    16 hours ago

    Donation tiers seem to have this in some capacity https://www.stremio.com/donate

    However since it’s all through tracker links something could still say like “Bluey” or whatever and it’d actually be like adult content because of mal intent or trolling